Andreas Ventsel defended his PhD thesis on semiotic theory of hegemony in Tartu University, department of semiotics (2009). Currently he his working in the same institution as senior researcher. He has been a visiting researcher in Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University (Georgia) and has given lectures in University of Turin (Italy) and in most of universities in Estonia. He has lectured about theories of culture, semiotics of culture, semiotics of online communication, discourse theories and political semiotics etc. His main research interests are related with political semiotics, cultural semiotics, online communication and power relation research.
